Esau: Salvation in Disguise. Genesis 36: A Hidden Polemic between Our Teacher and the Prophets about Edom's Role in Post-Exilic Israel through Leitwort Names

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: January 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

GERDA HOEKVELD-MEIJER, Esau: Salvation in Disguise. Genesis 36: A Hidden Polemic between Our Teacher and the Prophets about Edom's Role in Post-Exilic Israel through Leitwort Names (Kampen: Kok Pharos, 1996). Pp. [xiv] + 461. Paper Nlg 74,90.

Hoekveld-Meijer, a geographer whose doctoral thesis was on Chola temples built in India around A.D. 850-1000, proposes a history of Edom and Israel between 580 and 480 B.C.E. which is based on the genealogies in Genesis 36. She reads GenesisKings as a literary unit written after 480 B.C.E. by one author whom she calls "Our Teacher" (Our T.), a ...

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